History Extra podcast by Immediate Media

The latest news from the team behind BBC History Magazine - a popular History magazine. To find out more, visit www.historyextra.com

Category: Education

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- Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo

Mon, 25 Jan 2021
930
- The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 24 Jan 2021
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- The shipwreck that sunk a royal dynasty

Sat, 23 Jan 2021
928
- The NHS: a brief history

Fri, 22 Jan 2021
927
- Rebuilding Europe after WW2

Thu, 21 Jan 2021
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- How oceans shaped human civilisation

Wed, 20 Jan 2021
925
- Searching for freedom after the Holocaust

Tue, 19 Jan 2021
924
- The race for vaccines: lessons from history

Mon, 18 Jan 2021
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- Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 17 Jan 2021
922
- MI9’s secret escape missions

Sat, 16 Jan 2021
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- Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war

Fri, 15 Jan 2021
920
- How historians helped build the British empire

Thu, 14 Jan 2021
919
- When British pop invaded America

Wed, 13 Jan 2021
918
- The collapse of the Third Reich

Tue, 12 Jan 2021
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- Domesday Book: medieval big data

Mon, 11 Jan 2021
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- The Renaissance: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 10 Jan 2021
915
- The decline and death of Henry VIII

Sat, 09 Jan 2021
914
- Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?

Fri, 08 Jan 2021
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- Brexit’s long historical roots

Wed, 06 Jan 2021
912
- Editor’s pick: Lenin’s revolutionary train journey

Tue, 05 Jan 2021
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- The battle for Sicily, 1943

Mon, 04 Jan 2021
910
- The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 03 Jan 2021
909
- German Jews in WW1

Sat, 02 Jan 2021
908
- Bizarre books and macabre manuscripts

Fri, 01 Jan 2021
907
- Bonnie Prince Charlie: hero or coward?

Thu, 31 Dec 2020
906
- Editor’s pick: covert Catholicism in Elizabethan England

Wed, 30 Dec 2020
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- Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom

Tue, 29 Dec 2020
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- Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance

Mon, 28 Dec 2020
903
- The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know about

Sun, 27 Dec 2020
902
- Editor’s pick: the Windrush generation

Thu, 24 Dec 2020
901
- Our 2020 Christmas quiz

Wed, 23 Dec 2020
900
- Editor’s pick: Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton

Tue, 22 Dec 2020
899
- Christmas ghost stories

Mon, 21 Dec 2020
898
- The history of Christmas: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 20 Dec 2020
897
- A WW2 story of survival

Sat, 19 Dec 2020
896
- Editor’s pick: Were the suffragettes terrorists?

Fri, 18 Dec 2020
895
- Ten things to do with a medieval donkey

Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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- Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe

Mon, 07 Dec 2020
893
- Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring

Wed, 16 Dec 2020
892
- Princes in the Tower: A medieval murder mystery. Episode Eight: A conclusion (of sorts)

Tue, 15 Dec 2020
891
- The gay MPs who opposed appeasement

Mon, 14 Dec 2020
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- Magna Carta: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 13 Dec 2020
889
- Japan and the west

Sat, 12 Dec 2020
888
- Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history

Fri, 11 Dec 2020
887
- Castro and the trip that shaped the 1960s

Thu, 10 Dec 2020
886
- Imperialism on the oceans

Wed, 09 Dec 2020
885
- Princes in the Tower: A medieval murder mystery. Episode Seven: Survival theories

Tue, 08 Dec 2020
884
- The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain

Mon, 07 Dec 2020
883
- The Glorious Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 06 Dec 2020
882
- The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar

Sat, 05 Dec 2020

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